Pope Benedict’s visit to America, home to 66 million Catholics, has been generating a great deal of press. It’s great to see the focus he’s been putting on environmental and animal welfare issues, regardless of the restrictions I...
Category - Environmental cost of meat
Biuofuels came under attack at a conference in Washington DC over the weekend, as poor nations blame the Western focus on ethanol production for rising food prices that are causing riots and political instability in some parts of the...
The New York Times has an opinion article by Paul Krugman that paints a terrifying picture of the global food crisis in relation to energy and climate change. Krugman says that over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic...
In the wake of the downer cattle cruely scandal that the Humane Society unveiled recently, and which fortunately led to the closure of Hallmark Meat Packing Co. in Chino, California, political cartoonist Mark Fiore created an animation that explains...
How do we ever find out what the real costs are?
